Text Formatting

Demonstrates the full range of text formatting: font families, bold/italic styles, point sizes, RGB colors, alignment via the Alignment enum, and multi-line paragraphs.

Full Example

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use TcpdfNext\Document;
use TcpdfNext\Enums\Alignment;

Document::create()
    ->setTitle('Text Formatting')
    ->addPage()

    // -- Font Families ---------------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->setTextColor(33, 37, 41)
    ->cell(0, 12, 'Font Families', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Helvetica -- clean sans-serif', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('times', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Times -- classic serif', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('courier', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Courier -- monospace', newLine: true)

    // -- Styles ----------------------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->cell(0, 16, 'Font Styles', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Regular text', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Bold text', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'I', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Italic text', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'BI', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Bold + Italic text', newLine: true)

    // -- Sizes -----------------------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->cell(0, 16, 'Font Sizes', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 8)
    ->cell(0, 6, '8 pt -- fine print', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, '12 pt -- body text', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 20)
    ->cell(0, 12, '20 pt -- subheading', newLine: true)

    ->setFontSize(28)
    ->cell(0, 16, '28 pt -- heading', newLine: true)

    // -- Colors ----------------------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->setTextColor(33, 37, 41)
    ->cell(0, 16, 'Text Colors', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 12)
    ->setTextColor(220, 53, 69)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Red (220, 53, 69)', newLine: true)

    ->setTextColor(25, 135, 84)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Green (25, 135, 84)', newLine: true)

    ->setTextColor(13, 110, 253)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Blue (13, 110, 253)', newLine: true)

    ->setTextColor(33, 37, 41)

    // -- Alignment -------------------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->cell(0, 16, 'Text Alignment', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 12)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Left-aligned (default)', align: Alignment::Left, newLine: true)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Center-aligned',         align: Alignment::Center, newLine: true)
    ->cell(0, 8, 'Right-aligned',          align: Alignment::Right, newLine: true)

    // -- Multi-Line Paragraph --------------------------------------------
    ->setFont('helvetica', style: 'B', size: 18)
    ->cell(0, 16, 'Multi-Line Text', newLine: true)

    ->setFont('helvetica', size: 11)
    ->multiCell(
        width:  0,
        height: 7,
        text:   "TCPDF-Next wraps text automatically with multiCell().\n"
              . "Use the Alignment enum for justified, left, center, or right alignment.\n"
              . "Line spacing is controlled by the height parameter.",
        align:  Alignment::Justified,
    )

    ->save(__DIR__ . '/text-formatting.pdf');

echo 'PDF created.' . PHP_EOL;

Key Concepts

Style Characters

Character	Meaning
(empty)	Regular
B	Bold
I	Italic
BI	Bold + Italic

setTextColor(r, g, b)

Accepts RGB integers 0--255. Call it before any text-writing method:

->setTextColor(13, 110, 253)   // blue

Alignment Enum

Value	Effect
Alignment::Left	Left-aligned (default)
Alignment::Center	Centered
Alignment::Right	Right-aligned
Alignment::Justified	Justified (multiCell only)

cell() vs multiCell()

• cell() -- single-line, no wrapping.
• multiCell() -- wraps text within the given width and supports justification.

Output

The generated PDF contains one page showcasing three font families, four style variants, four sizes, three colors, three alignment modes, and a justified paragraph.